The Latest Breaking News from Lucy Letby

Ministers plan to expand whole-life sentences for ‘most horrific’ murderers

Currently rare prison orders with little chance of parole would become default for worst offenders under MoJ proposals

The Guardian - UK · Aug 26, 2023

Chilling warning that scandals across NHS will be covered up as staff say whistleblowers are ignored

In wake of missed chances to catch killer nurse Lucy Letby, figures show doctors and nurses’ widespread concerns about sounding the alarm

The Independent UK · Aug 26, 2023

How true crime obsessives convinced Lucy Letby was innocent ‘broke reporting restrictions’

In echoes of the attention given to the Nicola Bulley case, online sleuths took a keen interest in the Lucy Letby trial

The Independent UK · Aug 26, 2023

The Lucy Letby case must lead to changes in hospital management

Letters: From the business model, to lack of resources, to mushrooming management, readers look at what the NHS must learn

The Guardian - UK · Aug 25, 2023

Fury as Jackie Baillie draws 'parallels' between Lucy Letby case and Scottish NHS

JACKIE Baillie has been widely condemned after she claimed there were “parallels” between the case of serial killer Lucy Letby and a flagship…

The National (Scotland) · Aug 25, 2023

Ministers indicate support for statutory inquiry into Lucy Letby killings

Ministers initially ignored calls by victims’ families for inquiry that would be able to force witnesses to give evidence

The Guardian - UK · Aug 25, 2023

‘A sick joke’: NHS bosses accused of ‘ignoring’ Lucy Letby concerns later handed key whistleblower roles

Revealed: NHS bosses accused of ‘protecting’ killer nurse appointed to investigate warnings from whistleblowers doctors

The Independent UK · Aug 25, 2023

Lucy Letby: child murder case highlights need to regulate managers and improve whistleblowing procedures

The recent conviction of Lucy Letby, the neonatal nurse who murdered seven infants and attempted to murder six others while working at the Countess of Chester Hospital between 2015-2016, has raised fundamental questions about how something like this could have happened – and why it took so long to stop…

The Conversation · Aug 25, 2023

Rishi Sunak vows to hold judge-led inquiry into baby-killing nurse Lucy Letby

Bereaved families want full legal powers for the probe

Evening Standard · Aug 25, 2023

Lucy Letby news – latest: Killer nurse to be stripped of NHS pension after baby murders

Warning: distressing content. Letby was convicted of murdering seven babies and trying to kill six more

The Independent UK · Aug 25, 2023